Blazing Furniture Plagues Colorado City

Posted By
The Gilbert Law Group

The City of Boulder, Colorado is a serene and much-loved university town
nestled at the foot of majestic Rocky Mountain peaks. During the academic
year it is home to over 27,000 CU undergraduates. Some unknown culprit
or culprits continue to engage in the time-honored ritual of setting fire
to sofas and other furniture left abandoned outdoors.
Boulder fire and other city officials, quite naturally, are deeply concerned
and have taken steps to try and prevent the practice by imposing fines
for abandoning furniture in yards and public ways.
City spokeswoman Sarah Huntley says, “When [couches] are left in
public places that are frequented by people returning from parties or
bars around 1 a.m., someone thinks it would be a good idea to light the
couch on fire.” Armed with this knowledge, the logical step would
appear to be to find out just who this “someone” is.
In its article reporting on the issue, dailycamera.com fails to mention
whether or not anyone has ever been caught or charged with setting the
fires. Logically, city police should set up surveillance on abandoned
couches at about 1 a.m. Or, better yet, it would be a more permanent solution
for the city simply to haul off the couches before they are set ablaze.
Some enterprising students with a truck may even want to contract with
the city to remove the furniture to the county dump. Any of these solutions
should prove to be much less costly than having the fire department respond
and douse the flames, and then haul away the furniture.
Or am I just a dreamer?
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